The Power of Prayer and Silent Opposition
Many readers know that I have a personal stake, so to speak, in opposition to abortion. Here is a very interesting article about some like-minded people: Planned Parenthood Director Quits Abortion Business, Experiences Conversion at Starting Place of 40 Days for Life BRYAN, Texas, Nov. 2 /Christian Newswire/ — The director of the Planned Parenthood abortion center in Bryan/College Station, Texas has resigned her job. Abby Johnson had worked at the clinic for eight years, but departed from the facility following a profound change of heart about abortion. The Planned Parenthood clinic was the location of the first-ever 40 Days for Life campaign in the fall of 2004, and the prayer and fasting initiative has been held outside the doors of Johnson’s...
The Fetus Can Remember
A recent study by Netherlands-based scientists shows that not only do unborn children respond to stimuli such as buzzing sounds – they remember those stimuli. In fact, the Washington Times cited the study as saying that fetuses nearly two months before birth can not only remember things, they “are able to store information and retrieve it four weeks later.” That’s “wonderfully made.” That’s a living, intelligent person. That’s what you and I were, from the beginning, months before our own births. But there’s a flip side to what the study found. Not only can the fetuses respond to and remember stimuli –they can also learn to ignore it. The study calls this “habituation”—where a sound becomes familiar, then just unremarkable...
